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Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
RSC artistic director Gregory Doran's view on the conspiracy theories.
- Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
- Full session
- James reads from A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
- Susan Calman on how Victoria Wood inspired her to become a comedian
- Billy Bragg: 'Who does she think she is, the Queen of England?!'
- Lionel Shriver on 'the outrageous gamble of having a child'
- Russell T Davies on wanting to adapt A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 'Shakespeare didn't sound like Prince Charles'
- Fay Weldon reads an extract from her new novel Before the War
- Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
- Valeria Luiselli recalls her first Shakespeare drama performance
- Billy Bragg performs Brickbat
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- Andrew Davies
- Baaba Maal
- Ben Miller
- Billy Bragg
- Caitlin Moran
- Chris Hoy
- Chris Packham
- Claire Harman
- David Gilmour and Polly Samson
- David Mitchell
- Edmund de Waal
- Edna O'Brien
- Eleanor Tomlinson, Karen Thrussell and Debbie Horsfield
- Fay Weldon
- George Monbiot
- Germaine Greer
- Gregory Doran
- Imtiaz Dharker and Gillian Clarke
- James Shapiro
- Jeanette Winterson on The Gap of Time
- Jeanette Winterson: Shakespeare 400
- Joan Bakewell
- Jonathan Bate
- Jonathan Dimbleby
- Julian Clary and David Roberts
- Lionel Shriver
- Malorie Blackman
- Maxine Peake and Paapa Essiedu
- Michael Morpurgo
- Michael Palin
- Neil MacGregor and Richard J Evans
- Paul Mason
- Peter Carey
- Ruby Wax
- Russell T Davies and Maxine Peake
- Salman Rushdie
- Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie, Valeria Luiselli and Juan Gabriel Vasquez
- Sam Mendes
- Sarah Millican and Hannah Dunleavy
- Simon Schama
- Stephen Frears
- Steve Silberman
- Susan Calman
- Thomas Keneally on Napoleon's Last Island
- Thomas Keneally on Schindler's Ark
- Yanis Varoufakis